Improvement in card-cabinets



A. T. WOODWARD. (um) CABINET.

No. 104,391. PatentedJune 14, 1870.

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ARTHUR T. WooDWARD, or NEW YORK, N.. Yf

.Letters Patent No. 104,391, dated June 14, 1870.

` MPROVVEMENT IN CARD-CABINETS.

The Schedule referred to' in these Letters Patent and maling part of the same To all whom 'it may concern Be it known that 1, ARTHUR T. WOODWARD, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Distributing Card-rack Album, of which the following isa full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 represents` a face view of a distributing card-rack album as thrown open, and y.

Figure 2 a trausreisesection of the same, closed.

Similar letters oi' reference indicate corresponding parts. J A i My invention consists in an arrangement of distributing card-racks withinv a book or album, and so that they form the leaves thereof, the same constituting a new and portable card-distrilmter, which, when closed, protects the cardsfrom' injury or dust, and which, by being placed to lie upon a table, in a hotel or other public place, zis free to be taken up and examined, and is better calculated to enhance publicity by reason lof fi its acceptability and attractiveness as an album, than .are the open distributing card-racks heretofore in use,

-and hence the utility of the article, as an advertising and business medium, is proportionately increased.

Referring to the accompanying drawing- A A are the'halves or backs of the album, with any number of hollow leaves B B lin them, and provided, it' desired, with clasps a a for securing the album, when closed.

The leaves B have arranged within them distribf uting card-racks C, fitted withsprings b b, and-"followers c c, together with stops d d to the lat-ter, for allowingr of the insertion of the cards e, outward pressure of'tlieul toward the front of the rack, and ready ex-v traction of the cards, as required.

What is here claimed, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, isl Thealbum or book, having hollow leaves B B fitted with racks C, springs b b, followers c c, and stops d d to the latter, as shown and described, asanew article of manufacture,

' A. T. WOODWARD.

Witnesses FRED. HAYNES, HENRY PALMER. 

